While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental ... another English declaration of war, the French had been supporting the American army in secret.
Edward III of England was forced to recognise Bruce's kingship and Scotland's independence. The war was won. Bruce retired to his house in Cardross near Loch Lomond and died a year later.
Unlike the Ten Years' War, the Cuban Independence Movement of the 1890s ... The Civil War was over, the American west had been settled, and immigration was at record heights.